Foot traffic at Pearlridge Center was up 50 percent this morning, spokeswoman Deborah Sharkey said.

She declined to give a crowd estimate, but said, “This is Saturday traffic for us.”
Many of the parents at the mall came for the center’s Family Furlough Friday activities, which included booths and workshops in music, gymnastics, Hawaiian language and star-finding with crew members of the voyaging canoe Hokulea.
Parents such as Mish Kukloc were grateful for the activities, but would prefer that their children were in school today.
Kukloc brought her sons Jackob, a 7-year-old second-grader at Pearl Ridge Elementary, and Nicholas, a 5-year-old kindergartner at Pearl Ridge.
“We’re grateful, but I’d rather have them in school learning from their teachers,” Kukloc said.
She said she has not made any plans for the possibility that her boys could have 16 more furlough Fridays.
“I’ll have to figure out something educational,” she said, “not just go to the beach.”